noti.py

Simple Python-based notification script to post to a matrix server via the Matrix client/server API

This is not an interactive chat bot. The use case is to have scripts send alerts to a single alert channel.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at notipy.readthedocs.io

How to install

Via PyPi

As of version 0.0.6, noti.py has been published to PyPi, so installing (should be) as easy as pip install noti_py

This will also create a notipy "entrypoint" to use as the binary to run.

Via git

1. clone the repo
2. install the requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
3. cp example-config.yaml <config_dir>config.yaml
4. Edit the config.yaml to your local needs
5. Then just use ./noti.py --help to figure out what options you can specify

<config_dir> referenced in step 3 above will be checked in the following order or preference

1. . (current directory)
2. ~/.config/noti_py
3. /etc/noti_py

If you want it in another location completely, specify the --config option to override.

How do I use this thing?

start with noti.py --help to see a list of the commands you can use. Generally you are going to need to do the following things:

1. Create a user on your server for this script to connect as
2. Connect to a room by either:
   1. Creating a new room noti.py create or
   2. Joining a room noti.py join if you've already invited the user from step 1 with a different user
3. Edit the config.yaml to put in your access token and all your homeserver configuration. If you don't know your token, you can get it by running ./noti.py token

At this point you should be able to send a message with: ./noti.py send "message to send" or if you are so inclined, you can pipe stdin to the script with echo "message to send"|./noti.py send

Inspiration

I tried to use mnotify which is written in go. When I ran make, it gave a segfault upon running mnotify. Rather than try to learn go, I decided to just try to do the same thing in python.

Contribute

Feel free to fork, make updates and submit a pull request for new things or to fix some horrible python atrocity I have commited ;)

Chat

You can join me on matrix at https://matrix.to/#/#noti.py:arachnitech.com